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Reviving Venezuela's oil industry: windfall or high-stakes g...

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According to a study by researchers Rystad Energy, an eye-watering $183 billion of investment would be needed in oil and gas exploration and production infrastructure by 2040 to reach three million bpd, including $53 billion just to maintain actual production levels.
19 hours ago
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China opposes foreign interference in Tanzania: Ministry

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Wang Yi is the first foreign minister to pay an official visit to Tanzania since the bloody crackdown on election protesters late last year.
20 hours ago
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Unhappy' Putin sends message to West with Ukraine strike on...

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Days after European and US negotiators unveiled a post-war peacekeeping plan for Ukraine, Russia overnight Thursday to Friday targeted an infrastructure facility in the country's western region of Lviv with the Oreshnik nuclear-capable intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM).
21 hours ago
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Fresh protests in Iran as internet blackout persists

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Protesters filled Tehran’s streets again Saturday with anti-government chants despite a deadly crackdown and internet blackout, in what has become Iran’s largest unrest in over three years.
1 day ago
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New rallies in Iran as son of shah calls for city centres to...

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The two weeks of protests have posed one of the biggest challenges to the theocratic authorities who have ruled Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution, although supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has expressed defiance and blamed the United States.
1 day ago
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UN Security Council plans emergency meeting on Ukraine Monda...

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"The Russian Federation has reached an appalling new level of war crimes and crimes against humanity by its terror against civilians," Ukrainian ambassador Andriy Melnyk said in a letter to the Security Council seen by AFP on Friday.
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'Racing against time': Death toll rises after Philippines tr...

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About 50 sanitation workers were buried when refuse toppled onto them Thursday from what a city councillor estimated was a height of 20 storeys at the Binaliw Landfill, a privately operated facility in Cebu City.
1 day ago
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'We don't want to be Americans': Greenland's political parti...

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The statement late Friday came after Trump repeated that Washington was "going to do something on Greenland, whether they like it or not".
1 day ago
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Venezuela says in talks with US to restore diplomatic ties

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It was the latest sign of cooperation following the leftist leader's capture and US President Donald Trump's claim to be "in charge" of the South American country.
1 day ago
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Nicaragua arrests dozens for reportedly supporting capture o...

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Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega and Vice President Rosario Murillo are staunch allies of Maduro, who was captured by US military personnel in Caracas last Saturday and taken to New York to face trial on drug and weapons charges.
2 days ago